World War Quotes
608 quotes by 505 authors
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who…
— Isaac Asimov
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
— Joe Baca
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The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If…
— Michael Badnarik
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in…
— Emily Greene Balch
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was…
— Ben Barnes
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment…
— Xavier Becerra
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be…
— Bjork
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
— Lionel Blue
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
— Vanna Bonta
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered…
— Harry Browne
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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
— Dave Brubeck
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the…
— James Buchan
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of…
— Warren Buffett
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
— Madeleine Albright
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during…
— Julie Burchill
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per…
— Jimmy Carter
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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you,…
— Julia Child
Who Wrote These World War Quotes
505 authors contributed a total of 608 World War Quotes, led by these top contributors: